Disappointingly – No to 2023

Having seen several episodes of the successful TV series, 1923 starring Harrison Ford and

Helen Mirren I still think the production and acting is great, however, it should be rated X due to the over-kill of sadistic sex scenes that appear more gratuitous than essential to portraying the story or purpose. It’s concerning that the producers have taken it that far when it was totally unnecessary so it makes one wonder, as many have, why? Reviews are as I saw it in that there was no purpose in the excessiveness when the point was clearly made that the man orchestrating the kidnappings and torture is a sadistic psychopath. Most of the very nice characters are being killed off. Something is wrong. Taylor Sheridan, one of the producers, born May 21, 1970 is under scrutiny for the questionable scenes. The ratings are great that makes me wonder how many are putting it all together in relation to the gratuitous invasion of something totally unnecessary and assaultive. Once seen it’s not easy to erase. One person state feeling ill after having seen the last episode and there are a number of others also stating the unnecessary extensiveness of something beyond entertainment and authentic meaning. Yes, the sadist as one of the “bad guys” will likely get his due justice but outside of that it’s too late to retrieve what has happened. It’s very complex and sophisticated in that the main stars are so great and all the others are as well great, the production is great so what’s happening? Brutality across the board is historically true but that was left by the wayside in favor of so much time and detail to a form of assaulting those who tuned in. The latest episode had so many killed that many fans have vowed to stop watching. So, in addition to the unnecessary sadism was the shock of one after another good souls murdered. Much in today’s world is a double-edged sword calling for each to have a clear grip on their solvency and moral structure. Radical misalignments are too commonplace that too easily twists perception. It’s good to see so many are aware of the perversion and assault on the audience. 

As we move more into the Pluto reign in Aquarius there’s likely to be more subversion guised with sophistication and certain appeal that asks to accept it with a misaligned definition and pretentious purpose. We’ve just begun a 14 year cycle of Neptune in Aries that will affect to film and media industry and within that there’s likely to be a need to change as people think more independently and with scrutiny. The idea of dictatorship is fast fading and giving way to the greater insight of those who love the creativity of the field.

ASTROLOGY BRIEF FOR MARCH 31-APRL 6, 2025

 ★ Taking a Turn for the Better ★

March ends its mad dash of celestial events with the world having gone through every kind of event from natural disasters to societal upheavals along with a myriad of holidays, eclipses and retrograding planets that caused reactions and kept everyone unsettled and anxious. Phrases certainly seemed to fit such as – Beware the ides of March and March Madness are just a couple of definitions having run throughout the world. This has been a global reckoning causing many to question their own place in the scheme of life.

April will continue to bring many events and a need to follow through with the aftermath of recent energies although more structure lends a kind of reprieve to the intensity of it all. The recent equinox when the Sun began its transit through, beginning the zodiacal New Year, is following with the upcoming celebration of Easter, also representing rebirth and hope. 

We’re just into the 14 year cycle of Neptune transiting through Aries that motivates toward a more individual mindset and interest in unique kinds of independence where beliefs play a major role. This is a week that allows thinking about the bigger picture and goals in life so contemplation on where you want to go and why is significant. Insight is strong with taking time to allow the connection to your higher mind and your own spirituality. The learning curve does lead somewhere.

Astrology Brief-March 24-30, 2025

 

★ From the Deepest Part of Your Psyche Revelations Emerge ★

Like a submarine surfacing at midnight comes extraordinary awareness as Piscean rays open deep aspects of your life. Awareness of abilities along with profound knowledge increases. Shifts between Pisces, the last sign in the zodiac and Aries, the first sign creates a finalization between the past and going into the future that is intensified with the New Moon in Aries.  

Mercury now retrograde returns for a short visit into Pisces along with Venus moving into this mystical sign to align with Neptune creates an unusual type of insight that you can utilize in a number of ways from simply being more tuned into your surroundings and others to tapping into other realms. Insight can manifest in many forms such as through dreams and being drawn to what you enjoy most. If you are the slightest creative that aspect of yourself is activated and beacons to take a dip into those abilities. Discovery of every kind comes forth with the enlightening energy of synchronicity.  

Aries helps to be more synchronistic and if noted by journaling or logging the experiences you are taking leaps forward in your own evolution. Synchronicity is a seeming random event that catches your attention and forms an unusual pattern outside ordinary life. It can be that you’ve been thinking of someone and suddenly they contact you or the unlikely stumbling upon an item you’ve desired. A number might keep repeating in “random” ways or any other circumstance or event unfolds. All these are reminders that you are on your own unique path and can manifest it profound ways. 

 “I am in sync with my higher purpose and divine order of the universe.”

CopyrightSandraHelton2025

 

ASTROLOGY FOR MARCH 17-23, 2025

 Happy Spring Equinox!

Here’s hoping everyone had an opportunity to take a few moments and tune to the eclipse energy that captivated so many around the world. Alone, it was quite a phenomenon and from an energetic and esoteric view it continues to be profound, fitting into the theme of this era of the sense and changing lifestyles unfolding for most. Some much happens these days that seems to overshadow individual events, even to the degree that holidays seem to pass by without the depth and meaning they once held. Daily and even hourly bombardment of news seems to lead society, pushing everyone toward following rather than being empowered through knowledge. This is the lot of the Age of Aquarius intensified by outer planetary placements which is a kind of separation and fragmenting impulse unless one is strong in their individuality. That the recent eclipse held people’s attention is good in that it was unifying and for moments allowed “just that” to occupy our minds. The aftermath of that is the theme of this week’s cosmic rays of influence, somewhat like the calm after a storm. Just before the equinox on Thursday the Sun and Neptune conjunct in Pisces and shortly after, on Saturday the Sun in a new sign conjuncts Venus. The equinox is like a doorway that this year has strong rays on both sides. On Thursday the Sun moves into Aries that is the official New Year in the zodiacal world as it’s the beginning of the cycle of the Suns progression through the 12 signs. It’s a powerful day representing the advent of birth and rebirth. You’re called to connect both within and outward in whichever way best represents who you are from your strongest vantage point and with intention.   

The Spring Equinox happens at 5:02 AM and is the halfway point from the past Winter Solstice and the upcoming Summer Solstice. It occurs each year when the Sun moves into the sign Aries at zero degrees and begins its onward path through the constellations. New beginnings and planting seeds you want to flourish are activities you may want to initiate on this day. Here in the Northern Hemisphere it starts the germination of life and instigates nature to birth and spring forth new life. It’s really a powerful day for setting a pace for action akin to New Year resolutions although you have the Earth and solar system, the Sun and the heavens supporting you. Allow latitude to be creative in honor of what you want to do. Many quietly make declarations while many hold rituals and celebrations to revel in the planets rebirth.

 

Astrology Brief - March 10-16, 2025 / The Blood Moon Eclipse

 “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” – Sigmund Freud

So here we are with the Full Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse upon us that has been in the news along with excitement in the New Age community with some cases is overblown and a bit on the side of hysteria. Of course, there’s an influence and even with my conservative approach to “predictions” I confidently say that there is a reaction to this phenomena which, as I always state, very much depends on how it affects individuals based on their own birth charts. This column is in part based on mundane influence which is the overall collective consciousness so to a degree all are bound into the mix of the masses as we observe this intriguing event and allow it to reflect within.

Eclipses happen on the average of four times annually and can even happen up to six times a year so they’ve been going on for a long time and yet, even so they have mass appeal and impact. There’s always the expectation and thrill of something extraordinary desired that once weeded out still leaves significant events in response to them. Events don’t usually happen right on those days but mostly occur in advance and to a degree shortly after. A lunar eclipse is in full effect two weeks before and a solar eclipse is influential up to two months prior to the actual time both of which the time frames depends on other celestial happens around them This is why I often mention them well before the specific date as notice to be mindful of the influence.

At this time in our history many already experience heightened adrenalin rushes and some are addicted to the excitement, some are fearful, and some feel like they’re on a runaway train. Whatever the reasons, it’s with us now that society is caught in this frenzy and is enhanced by the idea of a Blood Moon triggering something special.

Virgo is a worker bee in that it governs those committed in service such as nurses, teachers, factory workers and all that work in unison. Pisces is also about large groups in a more cloistered setting such as monasteries, prisons, and anywhere people are housed. An eclipsing Moon is when the Moon and Sun are opposite one another so the powerful influence. Professions governed include fishermen, the shipping industries and their employees, it governs spirituality and those fields such as priests, religious leaders, dreams, mediums (those who talk to spirits), the alcoholic industry, bartenders, opiates, psychology and libraries are a few examples. Traits governed are emotions, secrets, unknown enemies, the subconscious, the feet, fears and unresolved issues. Primordial energy is stirred as each is called to acknowledge ones own internal dialogue. So, yes I agree that this is a special eclipse as we strive to have peace and harmony that is also Pisces ruled. Going forward there will continue to be challenges in all fields including non profits, the film industry and to a degree all media due to incoming Mercury retrograde cycle beginning this week. It’s good to evaluate your place within it all and allow Mercury in Aries to help you to strengthen your individuality in relation to how you connect to the outer world.

Lunar Blood Moon Eclipse, March 2025 Basics

Dates and times for viewing:

The total lunar eclipse will occur overnight on March 13 into the early hours of March 14, creating a striking red "Blood Moon" for observers across North America.

Almost 40% of the world's population live in areas where at least some portion of the penumbral phase of the eclipse will be visible.

The lunar eclipse will reach its maximum phase, whereby the moon is fully obscured by Earth's deepest darkest shadow, the umbra, at 2:59 a.m. EDT (6:59 GMT) on March 14.

Totality — the period when the moon is completely engulfed in Earth's shadow — will last for approximately 65 minutes. Key viewing times across different time zones include:

Eastern Time (ET): 2:26 a.m. — 3:31 a.m. (March 14)

Central Time (CT): 1:26 a.m. — 2:31 a.m. (March 14)

Mountain Time (MT): 12:26 a.m. — 1:31 a.m. (March 14)

Pacific Time (PT): 11:26 p.m. (March 13) — 12:31 a.m. (March 14)

Alaska Time (AKDT): 10:26 p.m. — 11:31 p.m. (March 13)

Hawaii Time (HST): 8:26 p.m. — 9:31 p.m. (March 13)

ASTROLOGY FOR MARCH 3-9, 2025 Beware the Ides of March

★★We’re already in the month of March and that old adage, “Beware the ides of March” just may fit the unfolding energy afoot. Due to shifts of planets and the influence of two eclipses, the first eclipse being on March 15 and the second March 29 as well as Mercury retrograde there’s much to unpack. The eclipse energies are influencing how people manage the most internal aspects of life in relation to the outer world that is always attempting to influence through dramatic attention. One example is the reality of bias and invasion of AI (Aquarius ruled) that easily distorts what is seen and heard. All of these challenge concepts of truth while everyone strives to maintain a sense of self and understanding. There was a time that the idea when society relied on newspapers, then also radio (both Mercury ruled) and then the addition of television (Neptune ruled) to report facts. Now, with the advent of the Internet, so called news is a runaway train or more like perpetual rockets blasting off in many directions. It’s easier to pick a lane of comfort that can be strengthening though it has too often led to societal separation. There was a time when religion was a source of contention as well as the generality of politics and now ideas and beliefs about life itself has entered the arena of what’s considered fact and important. The planet Neptune has, as do all planets, two sides – a higher and lower octave and currently in its ruling sign of Pisces is strong yet other influences such as Saturn transiting Pisces there’s struggle to maintain an ease of perception. Pisces is the subconscious, confinement relating to major institutions such as prisons and universities, the fields of acting and religion and much more. Much takes on a personal application that causes distortion and going deep into beliefs that therefore creates intensity. Mercury begins moving through Aries that during the week will sextile Pluto which gives strength and power to all the ways everyone communicates. For those inclined to impulsivity this may lead to taking a stand even if that position furthers separation. The eclipse axis has been pushing many in that direction and yet the actual cause may not be addressed before decisions are made including judgments. Idealism is one of the core principles based on a need to believe for its own sake. For some it’s “right fighting” and for others it’s a need for fulfillment through belief.